1. The document contains questions about life during the Great Depression including how people escaped realities, the effect of the Hawley-Smoot tariff on exports, why Hoover was elected president, and factors leading to the Depression. 2. It asks about the practice of "buying on margin" causing the stock market crash, how hobos often traveled by hopping trains, Hoover opposing direct relief for needy families, and many buying stocks with borrowed money. 3. Additional questions cover famous characters from entertainment during the Depression, what "Hoover blankets" and "Hoover flags" were, where people who lost homes sometimes lived, what "Black Tuesday" was, how the stock market crash affected banks,

1. Name_________________________________________________ September 21, 2012
The Great Depression
1. How did people try to escape the realities of life during the Great Depression?
2. What effect did the Hawley-Smoot tariff have on U.S. exports (goods that we shipped overseas)?
3. Why was Herbert Hoover elected to the presidency?
4. What factors lead to the Great Depression?
5. How did the practice of “buying on margin” cause the stock market to crash?
6. A______________________________________most often traveled by hopping a railroad car.
A. photographer
B. journalist
C. novelist
D. hobo
7. President Hoover opposed___________________________, or giving money directly to needy
families.
A. foreclosure
B. relief
C. public works
D. unionization
8. One of the major problems with the stock market in the late 1920s was the number of people who
bought stocks
A. on margin, with borrowed money
B. in companies they supported

2. C. only after carefully studying a company’s history
D. without knowing their stockbroker’s reputation
9. List three characters that were made famous during the Great Depression (entertainment).
10. What were “Hoover blankets”?
11. What was a “Hoover flag”?
12. The people that lost their homes in the Great Depression sometimes lived
A. in shantytowns
B. in roadside motels
C. on the lawn of the U. S. capital
D. in public libraries opened to them
13. What was Black Tuesday?
14. How did the stock market crash collapse affect banks?
15. What percentage of people were unemployed during the Great Depression (I want an actual
number)?
Bonus
1. What percentage of people are currently unemployed?
2. According to the news, there is “evidence” that an important figure that has been left out of the
Bible. Who is that person (you don’t have to know their name, but you do have to know their
relationship to main characters)?